-I love D.B. Russell. He's a breath of fresh air after staid Laurence Fishburne. I liked Langston, but I never bought into his One True Love affair with Gloria, and so I never invested fully in his arc with Haskell. But Ted Danson gives me hearts in my eyes. He's quirky and spunky, yet firm when he needs to be. He's not Grissom, detached from most interaction; he's as engaged and socially-aware as anyone in the lab, but he has Grissom's sense of wonder.
-Way to show your ass, Catherine. I don't blame her for being pissed at her demotion. She's worked hard for a long time, and it's got to hurt to lose what you've worked so hard for with a sweep of a pen and the invocation of the sacred law of bureaucratic ass-covering. But the truth is that whomever sits in the big desk when the shit flies is held accountable when it's time to clean up, and she was at the big desk when Langston when apeshit and Nick decided to abet him rather than stop him. If she wants the credit for the lab's success, then she has to take the lumps for its catastrophic failures, and the debacle in Los Angeles was a spectacular display of lack of institutional control. As a supervisor, she utterly failed to keep her subordinates under control. If Grissom had been at the big desk when Langston found his vigilante leotard, his head would have rolled, too, and he had a track record of unparalleled success behind him.
The first part of her rant was justified. Nick shouldn't have been cutting deals with parole officers. That kind of thinking has gotten the lab into trouble. But everything after that was pure petulance and unbecoming tantrum. "I lost the title of prettiest girl in school, er, got demoted!" And? "D.B. Moonbeam"? Really? That was her tack for proving her qualifications as a supervisor capable of making tough decisions? To resort to foot-stamping and name-calling? Not to mention the toothless threat to fire Nick. Yep, she sure demonstrated the requisite level-headedness necessary to lead a lab by continuing a screaming match after it became evident the whole lab was listening.
And I like Nick, but he should have been punished for his role in Langston's rampage, not sent to Hawaii for three weeks. That he, who was there and could have stopped Ray at any time but chose not to, got no punishment, while Catherine, who was in Vegas, and who had issued the order to have Langston frog-marched back to Vegas, got demoted, is ridiculous. Catherine should have pointed that out instead of slagging on her blameless supervisor.
-Way to show your ass, Catherine. I don't blame her for being pissed at her demotion. She's worked hard for a long time, and it's got to hurt to lose what you've worked so hard for with a sweep of a pen and the invocation of the sacred law of bureaucratic ass-covering. But the truth is that whomever sits in the big desk when the shit flies is held accountable when it's time to clean up, and she was at the big desk when Langston when apeshit and Nick decided to abet him rather than stop him. If she wants the credit for the lab's success, then she has to take the lumps for its catastrophic failures, and the debacle in Los Angeles was a spectacular display of lack of institutional control. As a supervisor, she utterly failed to keep her subordinates under control. If Grissom had been at the big desk when Langston found his vigilante leotard, his head would have rolled, too, and he had a track record of unparalleled success behind him.
The first part of her rant was justified. Nick shouldn't have been cutting deals with parole officers. That kind of thinking has gotten the lab into trouble. But everything after that was pure petulance and unbecoming tantrum. "I lost the title of prettiest girl in school, er, got demoted!" And? "D.B. Moonbeam"? Really? That was her tack for proving her qualifications as a supervisor capable of making tough decisions? To resort to foot-stamping and name-calling? Not to mention the toothless threat to fire Nick. Yep, she sure demonstrated the requisite level-headedness necessary to lead a lab by continuing a screaming match after it became evident the whole lab was listening.
And I like Nick, but he should have been punished for his role in Langston's rampage, not sent to Hawaii for three weeks. That he, who was there and could have stopped Ray at any time but chose not to, got no punishment, while Catherine, who was in Vegas, and who had issued the order to have Langston frog-marched back to Vegas, got demoted, is ridiculous. Catherine should have pointed that out instead of slagging on her blameless supervisor.
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